Planet Earth completed a revolution around the sun and we all celebrated it with gusto, calling it a New Year. There is much discussion around ‘known unknowns’ or ‘unknown unknowns’ of a world awash in debt and beset with rising interest burdens and global trade patterns having taken a geopolitical turn, with portents of trade and currency wars, perhaps even …
Last month, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was re-elected to a second term in office. In early January, Tokayev’s presidency faced an existential threat from a dangerous combination of mass protests and an alleged attempted coup by family members and associates of his predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s first president. For this reason, Tokayev’s political reforms have not – and are not …
Fourteen of Chile’s 24 new cabinet ministers are women, while several are former student protest leaders. Gabriel Boric, Chile’s left-wing president-elect, has announced his first cabinet, giving a majority of the posts to women and several to former student protest leaders. “This Cabinet’s mission is to lay the foundations for the great reforms that we have proposed in our programme,” …
New Delhi: The Finance Ministry has invited applications for the next chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India to succeed Ajay Tyagi, whose three-year term comes to an end next month. However, the public notice dated 24 January inviting application from eligible candidates indicates that the government in not inclined to give an extension of two years to the …
New Delhi CNN — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was formally sworn in Thursday for a second straight term in office, following a landslide victory in national elections that cemented his grip on power in the world’s largest democracy. Modi’s new team includes Amit Shah, his closest political ally and the BJP party president credited with engineering the party’s electoral …
)
